April 2026

What It Means to Let Yourself Be Seen

This Friday, something I created is being shown publicly.

It's called Mapping the Heart—a dance project I've been developing for several years. Part 3 premieres on April 10th as part of the Spark Theater Festival.

And I'll be honest: there's a part of me that still wants to hide.

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I've spent most of my life as what you might call "a best-kept secret."

Committed, yes. Working hard, yes. But somehow always still hiding. Always waiting until I was "ready enough" to really put myself out there.

But here's what I've been learning—in my body, in my practice, in this season of my life:

Readiness doesn't come before the leap. It comes through it.

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Mapping the Heart is exactly what it sounds like—an exploration of what lives inside us. The geography of longing. The terrain of memory. The places we've protected and the places we've forgotten.

Creating this piece has asked me to map my own heart in ways I didn't expect.

It's asked me to be seen—not as a polished performer, but as a human being who feels things deeply and moves them through her body.

That's vulnerable. And also... sacred.

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I think many of us are carrying a secret longing to be truly seen.

Not our curated selves. Not our "good enough" selves. But the real, tender, complicated truth of who we are.

And I think the reason we hide isn't because we're not ready.

It's because being seen—really seen—requires us to first see ourselves.

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If you're in the New York area, I'd be honored to have you witness this piece.

Come see what happens when you decide to stop hiding.

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